Category: October Horror Movie Challenge

Bug (USA, 2006) As I’ve mentioned in previous reviews, mental illness is not a subject often served well by horror films. Even when a mentally ill person appears in a relatively sympathetic light, such as in Repulsion, people around…

The Last Man on Earth (Italy/USA, 1964) Once again I find myself surprised at the amount of work that reviewing films for the October Horror Movie Challenge takes. A year seems to be just long enough to…

Long Pigs (Canada, 2007) Long Pigs is a film designed to raise questions about what we eat, but the main question that ran through my mind as I watched is was whether a film has to…

Escape from Tomorrow (USA, 2013) Back in the days before the web took over the world, printed fanzines were the lifeblood of the weird. They provided a cheap and relatively easy mechanism for strange people…

Humanoids from the Deep (USA, 1980) Usually, when the words “Starring Doug McLure” flash up on the screen, you have some idea of what you’re in for: a slab of good-natured cheese, untroubled by originality…